The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-08-18
CRIME AND CASUALTY.
POWDER WORKS ExPLopEp.


SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. 12.-The giant
powder works at West Berkely six
miles from this city, exploded yester-
day afternoon. One Chinaman was
killed, four white men and six China
men were seriously injured.
LATER OF THE TRAIN ROBBERY.
SAN FRANCISCO, Aug. IA west
bound passenger express train on the
Southern Pacific, was run off on a
switch near Pahago, about fifteen
miles east of Tucson, Arizona, last
night, by four masked men. The
engine was ditched and the express
car robbed of about S., 500. The rob-
berry occurred at the same point where
the west bound express was robbed In
April last. On the track beyond
where the train was brought to
stand still, the robbers had fastened
three torpedoeS to warn the engineer
and compel him to stop his train. The
plan to turn the switch and ditch the
engine was evidently thought of latter
As soon as the train went in the ditch,
one of the robbers who was upon the
bank commenced firing Winchester
rifle. He shot twice through the
sleeper and twice through the express
car. They went to the mail Car and
made the men come out and go to the
express car. They ordered the mes
senger to come out. but he would not
open the doors with a giant cartridge
and forced the mail agent to go into
the car ahead. Two of the robbers
then went in and one of them had the
route agent, Gault, and the mail agent
in one end of the car while the other
covered Smith, the messenger, with
revolvers and made him open the safe
TS1If n n
struck him over the head with a re-
volver once, but did not lnjure him
much. There were four men in the
gang, one was on the bank, one on the
opposite side of the train and two went
in the express car. They did not allow
any one to come out of the coaches.
A complete description of the robbers
lieved to be the same who robbed the
train in April.
HELD FOR MURDER.
KANSAS CITY, Aug. 10.-Nicholas
A. Jones, senior member of the firm of
Jones & Mason, founders and machin-
lists, died to-day at his home in Armour
dale. An hour afterWard Lewis Sim
clair, superintendent of the works,
was arrested as his murderer. The two
men had scuffle at the Office few
days ago and Jones was taken home
suffering acute pain in the abdomen,
said to be caused by kick from Sim
clair. Jones came here four years ago
from Buffalo, New York. Sinclair
| came from Mobile, Alabama.
DESPERATE ATTEMPT AT MURDER.
LOUISVILLE, KY, Aug. 10.-Three
unknown tramps robbed Adolph Vine
man, section hand, and bound him to
the railroad track near West WANT,
Kentucky, Tuesday night. He was
rescued by companion just before a
train came along.
| A GEORGIA RAILROAD WRECK.
| MACON, Ga, Aug. PA passenger
train for Brunswick and Florida ran
off the bridge at Albany last night,
leaving only the engine on the track.
| The cars were all smashed except the
| sleeper. Thirteen persons are reported
wounded but none killed.
THROUGH A CULVERT.
| TERRE HAUTE, Ind, Aug. PA
combination train on the Evansville 81
indianapolis Road, went through "a
wooden culvert at Saline City, twenty
miles from here this morning. The
engine and fifteen freight cars passed
| over it safely, but it gave away under
the one passenger coach, which fell on
| its side fifteen feet below. There were
fifteen passengers in the coach, six of
whom were injured, but only one,
Thomas Broughters, seriously. His
| spine is injured and there are internal
injuries which may prove fatal.